Sugar and lipid metabolism regulators in plants III
AssigneeBASF Plant Science GmbH
InventorsVolker Mittendorf, Heiko A. Haertel, Petra Cirpus
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Abstract
Isolated nucleic acids and proteins associated with lipid and sugar metabolism regulation are provided. In particular, lipid metabolism proteins (LMP) and encoding nucleic acids originating from Arabidopsis thaliana are provided. The nucleic acids and proteins are used in methods of producing transgenic plants and modulating levels of seed storage compounds. Preferably, the seed storage compounds are lipids, fatty acids, starches or seed storage proteins.
Claims42
A method of producing a transgenic plant having a modified level of a seed storage compound or seed yield comprising, transforming a plant cell with an expression vector comprising a lipid metabolism protein (LMP) nucleic acid and generating from the plant cell the transgenic plant, wherein the nucleic acid encodes a polypeptide that functions as a modulator of a seed storage compound or seed yield in the plant, and wherein the LMP nucleic acid comprises a polynucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of:
- SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:3, SEQ ID NO:5, SEQ ID NO:7, SEQ ID NO:9, SEQ ID NO:11, SEQ ID NO:13, SEQ ID NO:15, SEQ ID NO:17, SEQ ID NO:19, SEQ ID NO:21, SEQ ID NO:23, SEQ ID NO:25, SEQ ID NO:27, SEQ ID NO:29, or SEQ ID NO:31.
A method of producing a transgenic plant having a modified level of a seed storage compound or seed yield comprising, transforming a plant cell with an expression vector comprising a LMP nucleic acid and generating from the plant cell the transgenic plant, wherein the nucleic acid encodes a polypeptide that functions as a modulator of a seed storage compound or seed yield in the plant, and wherein the LMP nucleic acid comprises a polynucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide selected from the group consisting of:
- SEQ ID NO:2, SEQ ID NO:4, SEQ ID NO:6, SEQ ID NO:8, SEQ ID NO:10, SEQ ID NO:12, SEQ ID NO:14, SEQ ID NO:16, SEQ ID NO:18, SEQ ID NO:20, SEQ ID NO:22, SEQ ID NO:24, SEQ ID NO:26, SEQ ID NO:28, SEQ ID NO:30, or SEQ ID NO:32.
An isolated LMP nucleic acid comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide that functions as a modulator of a seed storage compound in a plant, wherein the polynucleotide is selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:11, SEQ ID NO:17, or SEQ ID NO:29.
An isolated LMP nucleic acid comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide that functions as a modulator of a seed storage compound in a plant, wherein the polynucleotide is selected from the group encodes a polypeptide selected from the group consisting of a SEQ ID NO:12, SEQ ID NO:18, or SEQ ID NO:30.
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